Here is the snowstorm that hit the Northeast in the last few days, out a Long Island City, Queens, New York window, in 38 seconds (timelapse: one frame per minute from 9:06pm February 7 to 12:31pm February 9).
Amusing follow up about this snowstorm: an article on the gawker website, ‘Snow Panic Has Driven Weather.com Completely Insane‘
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SP Weather Station at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair
November 17–18, 2012
Silver Spring Civic Center
One Veterans Place
Silver Spring MD
The SP Weather Reports are coming to Pyramid Atlantic!
This is the first year SPWS will participate in the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair. We are sharing a booth with artist and SPWS co-founder Heidi Neilson.
Fair hours are Saturday 11/17 1–6 PM and Sunday 11/18 1–5 PM.
$10 admission for non-registrants; Fair/conference information is available online here.
Since 2008, SPWS has published the SP Weather Reports portfolio. Each year, twelve artists (or artist groups), one per month, are invited to ‘report’ on the weather data taken by the SPWS rooftop station, installed on the roof of Flux Factory in Long Island City. This open-ended assignment may be interpreted strictly or loosely; past artists have created prints, booklets, drawings, audio files, photos and video.
To date, the following artists have created SP Weather Reports:
(2011) Emcee C.M. Master of None, Glen Einbinder, Rafael Hidalgo Múgica, Naomi Miller, Chad Stayrook, Michelle Rosenberg and Howard Huang, Hope Ginsburg, eteam, Paul Kennedy, Adrienne Garbini, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Rick Myers
(2010) Liz Zanis, Graham McDougal, James Walsh, Carissa Carman, Mark Parsons, Tim Dye, Douglas Paulson, Robyn York, Cross Current Resonance Transducer [LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) and Douglas Repetto], Nicholas Fraser, Man Bartlett and Angela Washko, Ellie Harrison
(2009) Mike Estabrook and Vandana Jain, Susan Goethel Campbell, Emily Larned, Luke Strosnider, Andrea Polli, Mark Nystrom, Patricia Zarate, Jane D. Marsching, Stephanie Rothenberg, Graham Parker, Isaac Gertman, Birgit Rathsmann
(2008) Heidi Neilson; Natalie Campbell, Daniel Larson, Heidi Neilson, Jing Yu, and Liz Zanis; Katarina Jerinic; Lize Mogel; Chris Petrone; Bridget Lewis, Michael Geminder; Leah Beeferman; Neil Freeman, Sarah Nicole Phillips; Carrie Dashow; Richard Garrison
Above: 2011 SP Weather Reports
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Thanks to Eric Sanderson of The Welikia Project and Kate Zidar from the Newtown Creek Alliance for illuminating discussion of the Newtown Creek’s unique landscape, history & post-industrial challenges — and for pointing out avenues for future engagement. Also many thanks to Flux Factory for hosting the event, as part of their yearlong educational intiative: The Future of Your Neighborhood: Who Decides?
Thanks in particular to Christina Vassallo, Douglas Paulson and Lacey Tauber from Flux, and to all of the concerned citizens and neighbors who came out to the event.
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Posted in Local Environment, Our Station(s), SP Guest Lecturer Series, Uncategorized, workshop
What kind of weather report would you make?
SP Weather Station announces its first open call to participate in a limited edition + portfolio trade, the 2012 SP Weather Reports. This is the fifth year of an ongoing project.
Twelve artists or artist groups, one per month for 2012, will be selected to each create a Weather Report. At the end of each month, we will send that month’s data from our weather station in Long Island City to one of the participating artists. The data, as an Excel file, includes indoor/outdoor temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation, recorded at 5 minute intervals.
Each month’s weather interpreter is asked to contribute an edition (in a minimum size of 30 or more/unlimited) in response to that month’s weather. This can be interpreted very loosely; the data doesn’t have to manifest itself in the final project, and artists need not be based in NYC. If selected, you will be asked to produce the edition in compliance with our basic material/size requirements and deliver to SPWS by February 15, 2013. The edition should be something produced on the cheap (like a zine). Past artists have created prints, booklets, drawings, audio files, and video. Reports are archived online here.
The 30 sets of 12 works will be collated into 30 archival boxes by SPWS. Each participating artist receives one copy of the portfolio, while SPWS retains the remaining 18 to place in collections and exhibit. Please note: aside from receiving a copy of the completed portfolio, no production funds are available at this time (though we’re applying for funding and hope to offer a modest stipend).
To date, SP Weather Reports have been exhibited in 7 exhibitions including 1 solo show; group exhibitions include Shifting Communities at the Bronx River Art Center in 2011, the 2009 Queens International at the Queens Museum of Art, the International Print Center New York and the University of Pennsylvania Meyerson Hall Gallery. Public collections include: Dennison University Doane Library, Otis College of Art & Design Library Artist Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, and the University of Utah Arts Library.
To apply:
- Please view past reports online at: http://spweatherstation.net/?page_id=6
- Send an email to spweatherstation (at) gmail.com with subject line “2012 APPLICATION”
- In three sentences or less, tell us why you would like to create a Weather Report in 2012. This can be a specific proposal for the edition or an idea about how your work relates to this project.
- List your top 3 choices for the months you would like be a Weather Reporter.
- Include 3 samples of past work (up to 3 images may be attached, maximum size 800 pixels in largest dimension, or link to video URL)
- Optional: attach a CV or link to an artist website.
DEADLINE: December 20, 2011
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Posted in Our Station(s), SP Weather Reports, Uncategorized
As Hurricane Irene (the size of California) moves up the east coast, and NYC prepares with its first-ever system wide MTA shutdown at noon today, SP Weather Station is removing its instruments temporarily from the rooftop of Flux Factory. Batten down the hatches, East Coast.
NYC evacuation zones:
http://project-s3.wnyc.org/news-maps/hurricane-zones/hurricane-zones.html
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Posted in Local Environment, Our Station(s), Weird Weather
Yesterday SPWS teamed up with Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga to install a weather station on the roof of the Queens Museum of Art! Data from the station is posted to Weather Underground and Citizen Weather, and more information on station specifics is available on Hello, Weather!. More information on this endeavor overall will be forthcoming. . .
Chuck begins station install
Andrea sets up station software
Lunch Victorious
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SP Weather Station Meeting Minutes
13 January 2008
Present: Natalie Campbell, Kim Fisher, Dan Larson, Heidi Neilson
Proceedings:
-Meeting called to order 11:45 a.m. by general agreement
-Meeting agenda to follow ‘SP Weather Station Thoughts + Planning’ ad hoc memo-list distributed by Heidi to collaborators in days prior to meeting
-Item 1. Wind Sock. Necessity agreed upon, decision to extend design and fabrication commission to Carissa Carman. Subcommittee headed by Natalie to extend commission invite.
-Item 2. Website. Natalie to do some rewrite/editing of ‘about’ section. Heidi to put up some recently taken pictures. Tour of wordpress given to Dan. Weather data format discussed, agreed to have complete data available as an excel spreadsheet, and monthly data set apart and available as graphs in PDF format. Dates in data to be converted to consecutive days within year for ease in graphing. New data to be posted to ‘data’ section roughly monthly and thus available for download. Generally website open for population by posts, links, observations, comments, etc.
-Item 3. Reports. Heidi, possibly Dan to create report for Jan. Invitation to some other participants.
-Item 3a. Dissemination of Reports. Agreed that reports should be in an edition of at least 50, where 20 are set aside for complete year sets, some of the remaining portion go to the artist, the rest are sold/distributed-by-donation (or something) online. PDFs of reports available for free online. ‘Subscription’ system put on hold for feasibility reassessment in 6 mo.-12 mo.
-Item 4. Talk by invited independent weather station guy Kyle. Dan to extend invitation/scheduling, tentatively for Feb 17. Other invites: potential future collaborators, Mike-the-Roosevelt-Island-station guy. Dress code recommendation for talk: fuzzy hoods
-Item 5. Expansion of Weather Station Awesomeness. Metabulator graphing function fixed—Dan looking into. Lightning Detector—Dan to contact Ithaca guy. List of items of interest to approach Materials for the Arts—Heidi to head up acquisition subcommittee.
-Item 6. Long-term weather station expansion ideas to be revisited 6-12 mo.
-Item 7. Timeline. January, flesh out website. Invite/schedule a couple of artists for late winter/spring Reports, and maybe give them tours of the Station. February + March, produce first report or reports, put up on website. Rejoice. Visit Materials for the Arts. April, evaluate previous months, plan forward.
-other business: Noted that meeting and perusal of weather station itself could happen periodically, and that these meetings could be brief (due to weather—it was pointed out that the inside temperature of Station is about 45 degrees F on average).
-Meeting adjourned at 12:45 p.m.
-Minutes submitted by Heidi Neilson
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